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PLEASE revert the interface back to what it was yesterday. This seems just unnecessary. I really do not understand why everything seems to be getting more complicated than it needs to be. This is just TOO much.

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The big white bar is unnecessary and it reduces the screen size quite a lot (for some reason, it irritates me).

The "Join Brilliant\(^2\)" option has been increased in font size and made to look more prominent on the homepage of those who aren't \(B^2\) members. This saddens me because I don't have money to upgrade. Is Brilliant staff picking on poor people now? I cri everytim.

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Added Request to the staff: Could you make the lifetime \(B^2\) offer available at 500 INR (or something around that) anytime soon?

What I found funny was that the notifications were in PINK!! . And the notifications were merged with my profile pic , so if I click on wither of them , the other one get's opened by default . TBH , I found it a bit irritating .

The icons made things easier to access. Now everything is awkwardly clumped into my profile picture, and on a small screen, this can create problems.

The stalking bar is now more prominent than before - its white color is unavoidable.

Everything is on the whiter side now. The dark theme was easier on the eyes.

There is just a large empty space between the Brilliant logo and my profile picture. For what? Why not just Insert the "Home, Topics, Stats," and "Community" tabs in-between along with the notifications icon? There's an entire extra unnecessary bar under a bigger unnecessary bar to include those links.

The combined bars take up 20% of my screen space - all the time. Let's just agree that this isn't the best there can be.

The previous home screen was more informative. I like the "problem of the day" idea, sure, but I feel like it could've been under the "suggested" tab or a tab of its own on the home screen just fine.

Maybe "complicated" isn't exactly the right word to use, but "unnecessary" surely is. Well, that's what I think. Of course I won't stop using Brilliant because of this, but I probably will use it less because I feel too uncomfortable to use it often for reasons stated above.

The icons made things easier to access. Now everything is awkwardly clumped into my profile picture, and on a small screen, this can create problems.

Noted. We are trying to simplify the number of widgets that users have to look at all the time.

The stalking bar is now more prominent than before - its white color is unavoidable.

What do you mean by the stalking bar?

Everything is on the whiter side now. The dark theme was easier on the eyes.

Fair.

There is just a large empty space between the Brilliant logo and my profile picture. For what? Why not just Insert the "Home, Topics, Stats," and "Community" tabs in-between along with the notifications icon? There's an entire extra unnecessary bar under a bigger unnecessary bar to include those links.

The combined bars take up 20% of my screen space - all the time. Let's just agree that this isn't the best there can be.

Totally agree. Fixes are coming to this in the next day and then again in a week or two.

The previous home screen was more informative. I like the "problem of the day" idea, sure, but I feel like it could've been under the "suggested" tab or a tab of its own on the home screen just fine.

Excellent feedback. Note that Brilliant members have leveled this complaint at us every single time we change the homepage ;) Give it a few days to sink in.

@Silas Hundt
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I'm just wondering where the "Started Problems" option disappeared to; I found that one quite useful.

Also, just to pile it on, I'm not crazy about the new homepage. I looked through the "questions of the day" and now I'm stuck in perpetual gif mode which, while amusing, is not very informative. I preferred the previous version, (harumpf.... :) ). If I was able to flip back through the questions of the day at will then I might warm up to the new version .... eventually.

P.S.. These are just picky suggestions; the site is still amazing, and I appreciate how responsive staff have been to feedback I and other members have provided over time. :)

Regarding "Started Problems" -- understood. We'll take that into consideration. It is worth noting that for B^2 members can see a list of problems they've done on their Stats page.

Regarding nothing to do after completing problems of the day -- note that the old homepage was (essentially) the top 6 problems in your feed, laid out in a grid -- and the feed still exists! For the new "problems of the day" feature, we select the 3 problems we think you'll like most out of the entire catalogue of Brilliant problems based on all problems you've done in the past.

@Silas Hundt
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Thanks for replying. I was about to ask you where the "grid" homepage feed exists when I stumbled upon the mobile feed option. Wow! It's like I discovered a parallel universe! I found the (new) grid of 6 problems, the "Started problems" options and more. So now I can flip between universes depending on what I want to do and how I want pages presented. I'll be curious to see how things evolve, but for now I've adapted to the changes. Thanks again. :)

Noted. As I mentioned below, we have some ideas for how to improve this. Here's a concept:

How about you have the post button on the bars?

Thinking about it. Just want it to be as simple as possible.

The notifications and the home page got better though.

I think so too! (Not everyone agrees though /cc John Muradeli ;)) The hard (and fun) part of making something for a lot of people is being careful about your assumptions. Always surprised to hear what people like and don't like.

No offense , but since you are gathering view I just wanted to present my POV .

I joined B'ant in December last year , and I feel that the B'ant interface that was present in Jan-Feb was the BEST ! I will simply love to go back in time to use the previous one . \(\stackrel{{\Large\wedge\,\wedge}}{{\Large\smile}}\)

Maybe it's just me, but I still think Brilliant.org needs to work on their logo some more. It doesn't look right, it lacks that "snap of mathematical correctness". It looks a bit klutzy. The curves should be smooth and angles correct. Get someone with good math/geometry software to fix it up!

Yeah, it looks like a spiked soccer ball. But, no, really, it's a great logo, it just needs polish work. I look at it, and I see all kinds of problems with it, the arcs aren't quite smooth, angles are off, the spacing is wrong, etc. It was done by hand. This is supposed to be the flagship logo of a brilliant community of mathematicians, using exactly drawn geometrical figures...? It's like having a dodecahedron for a logo, but we see that one of the faces has six sides.

@Silas Hundt
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Silas, on a lark, in one of my posted problems, I wanted to see if I could duplicate the Brilliant.org logo used back then, but in more accurate mathematical form. I'm not saying that this is the best representation of it, but at least it shows what might be possible. The addition of the thick white rim to get the same effect was a major headache for me.

Here's the 16 x 16 pixel version of the same. If you squint really hard at it, you might make out the Brilliant.org logo. Or maybe you might make out Napoleon's face.

@Silas Hundt
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Here are two 16 x 16 versions you can use for a favicon, with black and white backgrounds. I think it's sort of recognizable as the Brilliant.org logo at that size. But of course, things like both the 1028 x 1028 and the 16 x 16, as well as their negatives, can be independently adjusted. Remember, this one I'm showing right now is a take-off of the other Brilliant. org logo, it doesn't have to be exactly that way.

Because of the way the Brilliant.org has 3 major vertices arranged, it sort of looks like a face, when it's very small.

@Azhaghu Roopesh M
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Azhaghu, this logo I put together is a direct rip-off of the original Brilliant.org logo, with slight modifications. I made it for a problem, Brilliant Logo Triangles, that I posted a while back. Check out the differences between the 2 logos. For this problem, I wanted and needed for it to be mathematically accurate, or else there could be trouble.